The Featherweight

Name: The Featherweight
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Released: September 20, 2024
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Frank John Hughes, Imma Aiello, James Madio, Keir Gilchrist, Larry Gilliard Jr.

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| Release Date: September 20, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Frank John Hughes, Imma Aiello, James Madio, Keir Gilchrist, Larry Gilliard Jr., Michael Siberry, Ron Livingston, Ruby Wolf, Shari Albert, Stephen Lang

Summary: Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and with a drug-addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the ring.

Director: Robert Kolodny

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Sport

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 99 min

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Richard Brody

Sep 18, 2024

Kolodny’s film is a touching, disquieting, relentlessly fascinating view of a troubled soul and of the world of trouble he belongs to. Read full review

IndieWire Adam Solomons

Feb 16, 2024

As debuts go, The Featherweight is more than just a competent drama. It’s as nifty as its warts-and-all protagonist, with an inventive verité storytelling style inspired by John Cassavettes that also evokes the era’s filmmaking. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Sep 20, 2023

The film is convincingly fashioned as a candid all-access documentary, a promotional puff piece curdling before our eyes into an unintended study of mental breakdown. Read full review

Collider Jeff Ewing

Oct 10, 2024

It would have benefitted from a greater inclusion of Pep's good times, allowing a more well-rounded exploration and understanding of the storied athlete, but thanks to a well-scripted narrative and excellent performances, it remains an excellent biographical look into the decline and fall of a featherweight empire. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Clint Worthington

Sep 20, 2024

The Featherweight elevates its been-there story of middle-aged guys chasing their glory days with some smart, unexpected performances and a genuinely intriguing aesthetic frame. It might not deliver a total knock-out punch, but it gets a few good blows in before the bell rings. Read full review

Lisa Kennedy

Sep 19, 2024

Kolodny handles his movie-as-documentary conceit with subtle flair and finesse. For a subgenre as crowded with movies as boxing has weight classes, The Featherweight isn’t a knockout. But it does land more than a glancing blow. Read full review

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